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"If you compare the two winters it’s a dream to go up north, and weather’s fun to write about – I know it’s supposed to be the most boring thing in the world, but I find it fun. Which makes me the most boring guy in the world. Fuck it."

"I also sampled stuff off vinyl records. I have this old sampling module at home that you can do really good pitch shifting with, so I use that all the time as well"

"We are pretty eclectic, and that shows on the album – Tomorrow’s Sun is a great song, but there is nothing else like it on there, so it sits alone."

"I have a whole bunch of new songs under my belt and am ready to just get it done. This time around it feels so much more comfortable."

“You know, I really think that those three songs are cut from the same cloth – to me they’re different movements of the same song.”

"We’ve been together now as a band for getting on to three years, and I can honestly say that this is the best incarnation that Gaps and I have been involved with."

"Honestly, the ARIA was a really not very funny joke... It’s nice to be recognised I suppose, but when we first heard that we were nominated we laughed."

"All our songs are stories, in a way, so I’ll be thinking long and hard about what stories I think the fans are going to relate to."

"I got tired of hearing people go: ‘And we were just listening to the beautiful Jen Cloher,’ you know. I got tired of being beautiful and nice, so I really wanted to go for something that was imperfect and you can hear it in the vocal take."

With a new book celebrating the glory days of Melbourne’s Arthouse Hotel, the pub’s former owners are establishing a similar community around new venue the Reverence Hotel, writes Brendan Hitchens.

"With reggae part of the staple of being from New Zealand, for us to be invited from over here is a massive buzz for us."

"If people started to say that they were all beginning to sound the same, then I might have to think about doing things differently."